Thursday, October 22, 2009

Bottle Gourd Dosa - Sorakkai dosai

Different varieties of Dosas following.... Here is another version of healthy dosa.

1. Bottle Gourd(Sorakkai) - 300 gms
2. Rice - 300 gms
3. Onion - 3 medium sized
4. coriander leaves a small bunch
5. Curry leaves - 5 to 6
6. Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
7. sounf - 1 tbsp
8. Asafoetida - 1/2 tbsp
9. Red chilli - 3
10. Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
11. Salt to taste
12. Oil

Peel the skin and cut the bottle gourd to small pieces with the seeds.
Soak the rice before 2 to 3 hours for preparation.
Grind the rice, red chilly, Asafoetida, sounf, cumin seeds together little coarsely.Pour it to a bowl. Now grind the bottle gourd also little coarsely and mix it with the grinded rice.

Add salt to your taste. Now, finely chop Onions,Coriander leaves and curry leaves and add to the mixture. Add the grated coconut for extra flavour.

Heat the tava. spread a little of the dough on the tava and spread it like dosa. reduce the flame to half. add oil and cook for about a min. now turn the dosa on the tava and let it cook for another minute. when the dosa turns brown on both sides remove from heat.

Serve hot with chutney of your like. This dosa also goes well with any version onion or tomato chutney.

Enjoy the new healthy dosa!

2 comments:

Anitha said...

Yummo, I want to taste this unna.
Very nice blog!!
Ani

annsa said...

Hi Anitha,

Thank you so much!
Try it out and you will definetly like it :)